Film Noir on a budget @PhotovibeStudio, Essex, 5th December

Those of you who intently follow the Gregorian Calendar will be smart enough to know that next friday 5th is the first friday of the month and hence we have a Frolic ! Hip Yip I hear you say.

The theme will be Film Noir on the cheap.

How to get the look at a fraction of the cost of serious Fresnel lights.

Wiki: Though film noir is often identified with a visual style, unconventional within a Hollywood context, that emphasizes low-key lighting and unbalanced compositions,[8] films commonly identified as noir evidence a variety of visual approaches, including ones that fit comfortably within the Hollywood mainstream.[9] Film noir similarly embraces a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the gothic romance to the social problem picture—any example of which from the 1940s and 1950s, now seen as noir's classical era, was likely to be described as a "melodrama" at the time.